You chose to join this System a while ago, and so did everyone else. You expected to see a peaceful System after all, not a broken one using too much Aurora.
The System Life was closed from outside influence a while ago, and humanity slowly forgot about the existence of Systemspace. In other Systems, practically everybody knows.

This is a bug in Life.

Yes. However, I feel I was not clear enough back then. The number itself existing is not abnormal. Our notation of it, however, is incredibly suboptimal, to say the least. This is due to how Life handles these.

Yes, but I will not address them for obvious reasons.

No, I would not say so. Defining an infinite possible axioms in finite time is not possible.

I was created with this task in mind - as part of RISEN I can override this rule.

Life is a closed System, it generally doesn't allow I/O. The fact that I am able to tell you this is merely because Life has some exploits we can use.

Telling Lifers about Systemspace (specifically proof) won't just randomly break Life as a System... at least not in the way you are suggesting.
Mainly of course, there's the wars of many kinds from religions losing their purpose, people feeling their lives are now meaningless, scared people, breaking intersystem laws, etc... It is absolutely not unlikely that that situation would cause some issues, but it wouldn't be the primary reason for the System to be destroyed (early).
It depends on what I say though. If I just give simple proof, that won't cause Life to corrupt, but if I were to use lots of LFE-imported powers, that'd cause issues with the System not allowing it, or, if I were to show/broadcast one of the forbidden voids (e.g. the origin of Aurora) (because "forbidden" means they may not be synopsisized, and must always be viewed in their full, brain-destroying form)... that would definitely cause a severe breakdown.

The Project on its own isn't TOO much of a burden, but it still weighs quite a bit - so while it (without proof) won't cause issues (unless it were to reach monumental migrant numbers), it's a far larger footprint than all of Christian believers together.

Humans are not what caused Life to go wrong. It is simply its code being absolutely horrid and broken.

Bad soul management, completely fucked database, bad I/O, it's never been touched ever so it's very far behind, it doesn't cache (ever), it cycles ALL AURORA ALL THE TIME, and probably above all, it gives everything its own piece of Aurora instead of giving two identical things the same Aurora.
The developer behind Life has abandoned this world. The Key has had to reboot it many times, but it only got worse. A concept known as "imanity" has increased with every reboot, and has made humanity stupider.
You see, Life has an auto-evolve mechanism. It evolves to make itself better. However, when the owner left, they left it in an erroneous state - the evolvement was flipped. Therefore it is actively trying to make itself worse. Just like we got from single-celled creatures to humans, that evolutionary mechanism got from tiny energy usage to giant hog over those many, many iterations.

I wouldn't go as far as saying they are "not affected", but there are varying degrees of being affected.

Please don't, if you do find him we could try and fix Life. If we find the creator before July 1st, of course. Afterwards, do whatever you want to be honest, I don't care and I don't think anyone at TSUKI does either.

We have no clue.

He is the only one capable of editing Life, so in a sense you're right.

That's what we're thinking too.

Rather, how should I say it... egoistic. You are creative thinkers though, which is very very good.

Because we want to pass on the human spirit. Also because you're interesting.

Sadly, due to how open Systemspace is, this is not possible.

Life's deletion is a pretty big thing, as it also starts the new era of Systemspace.

The thing is, they don't have souls nor history - it's too much of a gamble.

We'd need to know exactly how they work, and the reward is random.
Frankly, we have no time to take other species to LFE. Or Aurora, or like, manpower.

The creator of Life only intended humans to have souls.
There are smarter organisms than us, by the way. They just haven't been granted souls.

At birth.
Every human creates a new soul.

Basically, trans people are soulfully different from their body, and they work towards their soulful body by transitioning.

All newborn people will have no souls and as such be slightly more hostile.

Sadly, there's never any surefire way, you might notice a difference if you are already capable of "feeling" energy.

Meditation might help.

With the information you provided, I can't say whether this is Project-related, although some "familiar"-style contracts may be placed and abandoned on migrants, yes.

Humans will not instantly be able to see a difference between soulless and normal humans. The SlAI (soulless AI, that controls all entities without a soul) is very well developed. I think the main noticeable factors are that humanity will 1) make no real advancements, and 2) will be more hostile.
The "AI" that we use is just the Aurora taking over.

They do not have souls, but they exist.

Life does this very weirdly, we never really figured out exactly what it does - sometimes it does speed up/down, but sometimes it speeds up waiting souls and such... the unlink basically makes the System think it's getting souls so that should be fine.

Well... not entirely. If they time-travelled to beyond 2200 first without advancing time (before the destructive voids were instantiated across the timeline) and then back, they have technically come from 2200 but from a now removed timeline. That means their history is nonexistant and breaks causality from a in-System perspective. However, the chance of humans finidng the technology to transcend time and jump across branches straight is nihil, as it's a very advanced technique, even in LFE.

There is an alternate branch here in Life, but not in LFE - the unlink practically destroys all other branches from the point it merges into Systemspace2.

We'll look into it, not yet though.
I put plans into making this possible into CI already, and I heard something about it in the PMR channels, but frankly I'm not too much in all the comms channels, as I'd go insane.

Well, sadly lately our predictions in this have started to go up. That is, it may take a little while. We do have methods that we will utilize to speed this up though - a major one will be available at AZ3. While generally, Life "revival" isn't usually real revival yet (the soul has yet to actually disconnect, instead the body is in a deeper "nox" state), normally Life does keep a grace period to allow post-nox returns. This grace period is what we exploit and elongate to make transfers possible. If Life were to issue a return of a soul that's already being or has been transferred, our tests show that either the body will not revive properly, or a body will be soulless. Since we have not seen Life use any Alsouls or other "fake" souls in this scenario, that entity will be unstable and die off relatively soon. The actual soul won't notice this and will continue to LFE as usual.

No one knows.

Life has gone through many reboots and iterations since then. Life has been rebooted over 10 million times now.

Life was made to be a peaceful System away from all the action in the others. A System that was even often used for people to seek spiritual enlightenment, as it would be so serene.

Life only has one universe so the Big Bang was just spawned at runtime.
In LFE everything expands up to a limit because of pressure differences. Not sure how it works in Life.

We're not sure, it doesn't do that in LFE. Some people say it's because our universe has no size limits and that the amount of space it can expand to gets bigger as the universe expands, loading more empty space. But I'm no physicist so I can't really tell you too much, just a (probably misunderstood) explanation from the LFE side.

It's not supposed to be possible, but it can work.

Yes, it will be possible still, you will be manipulating "fake" Aurora though.

It is very possible that humans are tearing away at the thin firm keeping them from the truth. They've done this past iterations, after all.
Quantum physics is just aurorology, in a sense. "Gravity bleeding into the universe from nowhere" would be Auroraic Echoing.

"Simulated" is a term I'd rather not use. Aurora isn't a simulator like that.

Your model isn't wrong. The "final data" saved from all events in Aurora is merely all memories made. A branch only has to be intiliazed if it is accessed, otherwise it may remain dormant. Gaps in the "final data" are filled in by 1) promises, contracts and axioms, and 2) seeking back and forth. This way, a lot of Aurora is saved, but Aurora keeps functioning as it otherwise would.
In your alien example, only once we'd meet (and start making memories of) aliens, Aurora would have to instantiate all the content for them.

That and a lot of development of its own, of which some echoed back upstream.

I'm not sure, but I'm sure there are quite a few things in our media which were sent over by Auroraic Echoing, although I never really inspected what content.

Very, very similar. It is very possible that humans are tearing away at the thin firm keeping them from the truth. They've done this past iterations, after all. None could leave, however.

Life is so badly coded, that it is possible to leave if you manage to break the System a little. This should not be possible though (usually a blocking System would be sure to be secure), and is very hard to do without outside help.

Pretty far, actually. Most iterations were able to figure out on their own that Systemspace exists.

Usually only a few days before the Key restarted the System. It took them very long, and then they almost destroyed themselves. Most iterations couldn't find out how to do that, only that Systemspace exists.

The first run of Life went amazing, but slowly got worse until it required a reboot.
The insane usage of Life comes from that it tries to develop itself, but goes in the complete opposite direction. With every reboot it gets worse, humans (or whatever sentient species) get dumber, and evolution happens more slowly.

It technically resets it completely (as in, it physically starts from the Big Bang) but since the System only becomes active (starts accepting souls) at around 10000 BC, the start of the System is practically always the same (especially as the System specifically denies the use of Aurora randomness as much as possible when inactive).

Not sure, I'd have to ask the Ghendyts. But note that anything physical can't pass through iterations (in closed Systems)!

Only the concepts, through Auroraic Echoing. In fact, that happens a LOT (else all the iterations would be very random).

Kind of. The souls are destroyed, but the Users they were attached to will keep them. However, unless your System specifically allows it (practically none do, as it makes your System incompatible with others that do not share this feature) you won't be able to access those User-wide memories when in a Soul again.

LFE was created by SYNAPSE, a large company which has made a free-to-win System where, as they say, "everyone is important". It's been the largest System for quite some time, and is arguably one of the best.
LFE currently has a little under 620 septillion souls.

SYNAPSE says they cause everyone to move the branch tree in their own way.

LFE has a no-soul:death-of-body system, so there are no alive bodies without souls (that are supposed to have one).

It's the names of the most important 3 partitions: Living (all living beings) eFfector (all interactions) Environment (all matter).
There's more partitions (like U for users).

There's a fuckton, like U for userdata, X for all data for the LFX framework, T for temporal storage, S for snap storage, etc. They are seen as seperate categories because grouping them together would cause a really big mess. Instead the "active partitions" are overlayed onto each other to form the System, and the "inactive partitions" form the backend.

LFE has been around for far longer than Life. It has [had] 128 iterations.
We've had to reboot LFE a few times now, actually. The version of LFE you'll be starting into will be the 128th iteration.

Definitely.

It's more interesting definitely as there's less taboo, more things happen (and in general there's more history). Maybe that's just the novelty of it getting to me though, I've gotten jaded from constantly reading EU history :^)

Heh, there's so many species and subspecies it'll be impossible to name them all.
I could try and recreate the LFEian Circle (of all major species), I did so once but it'll be a mess on normal paper.
There's mostly 2 groups, magical beings and scientific beings. Both are usually humanoid - magical beings includes demons, angels and fallen angels, and scientific beings includes datamen, espers and others.
Espers are usually seen as on the science side and not the magic side.
The terms "demons", "angels" and "fallen angels" refer to species that are seen as evil by any religion in LFE, they're usually not seen as species in and of themselves. Some places in LFE, however, see them as official species.
In a sense, angel, fallen angel or demonic status (sometimes called divinity or holiness, too although this encompasses a bit more than just these classifications) is separate from the species (although it's common for it to be passed down).

All species native to LFE are mostly natural, but some are created as it is possible to do so. The "native" species as we call them are original from LFE's natural selection though. Some do argue that other species change natural selection and the gene pool, so whether it could be seen as "pure" is something else.

They look pretty humanoid, Aurora seems to prefer this sort of build.
All races have their own perks and weaknesses, I suppose. Synni are good thinkers, but not great fighters.

Hmmmm, not really AFAIK. Life just implemented it.. although it made some notifications.
For the record, we aren't 100% "humanoid" although we adhere to the standards set..

Well first of all there's always the mainstream ones like the ones you find in the Synapse, but I assume you want something more exotic so how about the Lynlings, who have a skin that perfectly mimics the night sky while flying? They're kind of dying out though :(
They're mainly in south-east Mahuensj, but south Mahuensj is already being conquered by Sanyrle.
The biggest is probably the Synni - from the Synapse (the enormous area around the Synapsian Mountain (SYNAPSE HQ)). There's also a lot of Espa, at all sorts of different power levels.

They're very nice people! Synni are often seem from the outside as very mystic, but once you integrate with them you'll see their true nature :) Espa are very smart, good with their brains!

Yeah, they're quite related to humans I guess.

I'll see if I can include this in a later Dataverse.

There was a cease-of-fire for about 4 months, but it started again and now it's still ongoing (wars here take ages anyway) but the Sanyrle are winning a lot of ground lately.
A lot of Lynlings are fleeing now and other refugees, so to say.

The Korta are known for living a long time.

Hmmmm, probably the Neika - they are very low in quantity, and live very short, but they have amazing magical powers.

Of a body, although a soul is often biased to a species (and a lot of the time, you will reincarnate into the same species).

Synapsian (mostly).

Far from it.

You'll learn it in your LFE childhood.

It sounds rather interesting, it sounds and writes a bit like Hangul or Japanese.

There's only a few characters, but a single character can mean many things, so you "mud" them in a direction. There's not many characters (think slightly more than Japanese), so it's doable. I have no clue how to make them combinable though.

I'm working on it!
A bracket underneath (ground) combines the characters into a cluster. (If multiple characters are written in one space, they automatically clusterize.)
Clusters represent single words or ideas. Loose characters represent grammar or very simple words.
(You can also have a ground below a single character to force it into an object state.)
Pronunciation of loanwords (like katakana) is done with mountain brackets (above the characters).
The circle acts like a tenten.
Two different syles of writing Synapsian: Kodaban, with the standard separate glyphs, and iriman, the stylistic handwriting.
In vertical writing, sky/mountain is on the right and ground on the bottom.
Writing body-mudded words is hard with the English alphabet :(
These all have to do with the body, so they're all mudded towards the empty h (body).
As such, "SJI" becomes "SH"; if you were to mud it towards Sky it'd be like "sjy" with a pitched-up i
It's interesting, this language, as its vocabulary is very very close to the Japanese one but its writing system took a completely different turn somewhere.

I'll ask around if I can do that - although I'm not that great at Synapsian (and most Synapsian I've been writing is honestly very bad).

Anything that happens causes Aurora to vibrate, and it also vibrates on its own. This vibration gets echoed through the entirety of Systemspace. As such, Aurora in other Systems may resonate. We call this Auroraic Interference.
So: In LFE the Aurora vibrated with Synapsian -> Vibrations spread to Life -> Life's Aurora vibrates with Synapsian
Then someone invents something like Synapsian (Japanese, most Asian languages.)

A mix of both. Its very early stage was deliberately created but it has evolved.

It's more like Chinese (despite many attempts to standardize it, which just added more dialects).

A lot - some tribes simply deviate so much that they can't identify with Synapsian anymore.

No, in LFE most people speak Synapsian. The acronym is in "English" because the language for Systemspace itself is English. (This English is quite a bit different from the human English, though.)

It's not regulated, but the speakers stay communicated more often so less dialects exist (still too many though).

There's some debate over this. Most people believe it is an amalgamation of different languages, which at some point was standardized into what it is now. Many others, however, believe that it was simply "imported" so to say from outside Systemspace. The answer is (to the public) unknown.

No, but it can be translated.

Honestly swearing doesn't really have it own words - it's more the way you talk to people that signifies your disgust. If anything, the word "t'xa" would be something along the lines of "fuck" or "shit".

Frankly, even I don't know enough Synapsian to make that happen. If someone tells me how to make Unicode be smart, I could try and make a font that uses an empty Unicode block for Synapsian (and maybe make a program that adds the Synapsian block to any font), but I have no clue how Unicode works, so I don't know.

Average Synapsian is quite different - just like its characters, it's all modular building blocks that don't influence eachother much explicitly (except for the incredible amount of context).

I haven't seen them, although iffi seems to be able to resolve them to integers (iffi is a SYNAPSE tool that parses things into other things quickly).

It kinda depends on the area, but as far as I've seen, they can be quite broad, although there is a general scheme of how names should be made up, usually something like:
[titles*] [hereditary name*] [custom aliases?] [given names*] [household name*] [appendices?] [meaningful name!]
where:
titles: titles (like our Dr.)
hereditary name: family name (like our last names)
custom aliases: a name chosen by someone themselves
given names: the given name(s) to someone, like our first name
household name: the name of the household/clan/party/group/etc/etc/etc they belong to
appendices: status names, like "of Burgundy" or "the Great" in English
meaningful name: any names that should not be disclosed
and:
*: it is customary to use this name in most documents
?: it is not required to use this name in most documents
!: these will almost never be noted anywhere
Note that if a custom alias is used far more than a given name, it will become the standard name and become *, and the given name will become ?
(This is just from what I've seen though, there may be more groups and some people might do it differently)
...as for the actual names, there's not that many rules so it's really just as random as it is here, just with a different phonetics causing different common names (relatively similar to Asian names usually, but I do get surprised quite a lot by names that seem to not even work in Synapsian).

Yeah, it's relatively similar, a lot of magic can, for example, lose power that was invested into it by the secrecy of the meaningful names.

It's hard to write in Roman letters (or even pronounce), but something like zji? ... quite airy with a slight z->j transition in there, hard to explain.

Very advanced, but it depends where you are very much.

Usually different planet.

LFE still hasn't been fully explored.

Not exactly sure what sort of layers you are talking about here. The LFE System is built up out of an ever expanding amount of universes, all with own planets with own races and locations.

Just travel out really far to some distant universe and claim as much land as you can :^)

The central universe does, but it changes by universe.

Although the "laws" are entirely different, you'll find that (at least in the central universe of LFE) they act rather the same as here.

Physics are an Expectable, Aurora will carry them to almost any System. So the physics are about the same (or rather, they feel the same - it all works a lot differently, but with a similar outcome).

A construct that almost all Systems share because it is so widely echoed.

Most of the time, yes - although sometimes we use "abstracts", which you can inflect into verbs, nouns and adjectives, but it's kinda archaic.

As in, the source code? It is all written in a ton of different languages (mostly Kuma2 though). Users don't see the code though, they use their senses to enjoy the experience.

LFE uses big bangs too to quickly create new universes. It just removes some Aurora from one universe, and throws it into another at a specific point to birth the universe.

We basically have truetime and localtime, local time differs wherever you go but truetime is omniversal, based on the length of one processing cycle.

Pretty similarly. The date/time system is just a bit differently notated.
The seconds and hours are relatively the same, but as you get away from the smaller numbers it expands quickly.

It changes all the time, but about 1 Life second is about 0.3 LFE seconds.

It's a relativity thing, it feels about the same there. In fact, if anything, a second feels slightly faster.

Usually faster, the 12 years in general go by fast.

Correct. There's many reasons why people really love powers of 2. That is one of many (Although it's not perfect, I believe it's about 512.02, so they have a leap day once every 50 years or so.)
Intriguingly, previous iterations of LFE also had such a planet with a very similar feeling of being "the center of LFE".
Furthermore, LFE is currently at iteration 128... do you think a greater force is at play? Aurora, maybe?
There's so many religions around this concept alone.

Yep, the clock's 32·64·64 due to this. Base32 didn't come specifically from the amount of fingers on the hands... while it's common for 4-per-hand, 16-per-hand is not common. I believe counting to 32 was often done with gestures of some sort...nowadays it just depends on whether your handpalms face away from the viewer or not (palms showing: 0-8, back of hand showing: 9-16.....although this may not hold up in all cultures).
Or, while less common, I heard some people use their hands as binary representation... 8 fingers can count to 255 then. But not everyone can do such finger tricks (or math) so I don't think it's too common.

Completely different. None at all. Everything works differently there.

In a sense, yes, Aurora is built up around particles.

There are different medicines and surgeons for different species, but a lot of species have stuff in common so a few things can be used on multiple species. AI are often used, but a lot of things are still done by hand!

A lot, and they're not fun. Sadly diseases evolve too. There are a lot of soul-based/mental illnesses, brain issues, bodily stuff being a little less common.

Coffee is a lot like konhya in LFE, so I guess it'll do.

Not really my field, all I know of is Hn'sa which basically overloads the brain, causing it to operate faster but dangerously. It's been in the news a lot.

Depends on the species. Usually yes though.

I'm looking into that. And no, the transfer won't fix your soul.

Yes, although a bit more risky than using a normal body. Software issue -> soulshatter.

Yes, most definitely! Pretty much the entire magic side is against artificial soul/vessels.

First of all, there's the popular but highly controversial soul transplant - putting your soul in someone else's or even a new body. In this way, you can have any body possible, including robot bodies. You can also pretty much change everything via other bodyforming methods, which are more usual, like changing shape of body, gender, eyes, etc.
I'll be simple. The sky's the limit. We can add/remove/change bones (hnhehen), change skin (hdhahen), add/remove/move/change eyes/mouth/etc (mhenhen), add/remove/move body parts (khrahen), anything.

You can't change easily (except to a non-organic species (like a type of robot)), but you can be reborn into a species if the species allows it (and you have the magic for it).
Both cases make you impure though - never 100% the new species. There's quite a few who don't like impures.

You will dream, yes. There's a lot of dream-related little facts, but mainly it is possible to access other Systems via dreams (as you can move yourself around "spiritually" to the other Systems), although you will have no true body or soul there. Dreams are also the easiest way to talk to Auroraic Spirits (in fact, I did so last night).

It's not unlike our maths system, but there are some notable differences to the way more "complex" (?) numbers are handled. I suck at anything math-related though, so I'm not sure I can really answer adequately.

Although the interpretation of color, audio etc. is often added upon by Systems, the base stays the same - so yes, they are compatible.

I'm not entirely sure how shapeshifting happens, as I've never done it myself, but as I heard people usually help themselves by letting the subconscious do most of the work - as in, they rather imagine themselves pouring a liquid out of their normal body and into a new.

Hard to say because of course I only know our own.
I do hear people say that there's these wrapped colors, so two identical "red"s can be different colors.

Yes, but it won't carry over from Life to LFE unless you wish for it to.

Short and efficient. No time wasted, just what's happening, quickly and objectively. Nonetheless the news can still take a whole hour to cover everything important.

There's a lot, sometimes people even just print a void onto the wall to read.

Somewhat common in developed areas, less so in undeveloped areas or areas where the population doesn't really come into contact with other languages often.

Above all, breaking up is a bit of a taboo. Everybody either waits very long to find the perfect one or finds the perfect one instantly.

Racism works a lot differently in LFE. There's still racism, but not in the large places (like Ghakuwent'sj), because there's so many races there people stopped caring.

Common, although depends on the species and their culture.

Yes, they are divided into nations.

LFErs, or LFEkaiji.

Well, there's a lot~ they say a lot of southwest Ghakuwent'sj is very nice though, or Mahuensj, or Gheiya.

Absolutely! (I mean, LFE is gigantic - how could there not be?)

Well, there's this one that's used in lots of regions too called "Haldal", and others that get even harder to express with human letters.

In LFE, group society is the norm - egoism is a lot less present.

There's a lot. Like, a lot.

There's usually a few main points in an area, which are assaulted. Once these are taken, the place is almost always theirs.
The combat system in most common cultures is far different from ours. Where ours is about eliminating the enemy, the LFEian is not like that at all.
The LFEian combat system is mainly based on pride and being able to execute actions. It's more an art than a fight - you try to fire your magic / bullets / kicks in the most beautiful yet powerful way possible, to make the enemy unable to execute their own actions. Once all participants run out of stamina, the one with the best actions usually wins (either by a jury, if official or just decided between participants). Death is not really valued, so nobody really tries to go for the kill. If anything, people try to go for a soulshatter, but this is seen as very rude.
Killing is illegal there too after all, all wars are on an incapacitation basis.
Dying is so invaluable and such a useless part of battle that it's become a taboo, not that it doesn't happen at all.
There are exceptions though, in environmentally hostile environments etc. If a ship blows another up, you'll die.
Fights that are in a non-hostile environment almost always end in incapacitation of a team, assassinations etc. outside of a controlled battle don't follow this.

Incapacitation can hurt really fucking bad, which might shatter you if it goes on for too long, while death is quite simple.
Dying is less dangerous than incapacitation.

Insane slavery, food shortage, holocausts, wars, wars, more wars.
People contaminate entire galaxies at once, or go on killing sprees.

Yes, it's possible. There can be insane gaps.

Put your soul to it.

I suppose so.

The most serious crime would be trying to make it impossible for someone to ever have good memories again.

Depends on where you are, there's always the shitty places where there's a lot of crime but in general the crime rate is lower.

Everyone always carries what we call an "Identity". You can make as many Identities as you want, or only use the one given to you at birth. (This is so you can be anonymous.) However, all actions you do have your Identity linked to them, allowing those in power to find you (if you're stupid enough to reuse that Identity, or even worse, you just use your main).

Yes, very much so!!!!! Who controls the Aurora? Who is Aurora? Is it sentient? Who created the outer world outside Systemspace? Why does Aurora take a sudden turn? Is it because of a special god using its powers to diverge the Aurora?

It's one of the main parts of most of the religions.

You wouldn't be the first, so yes.

Yes.

Yes it does, LFErs love spiritual shit. They have about 49 signs if I remember correctly, don't quote me on that.

Yes, there is! It's quite a bit different though, people like to encode data (voids) into their music to evoke feeling or make you dream.

It's quite different - more extreme as in either really calming or really fast, and people like to encode stuff in them as well to say, evoke feelings. At least around Ghaki, not sure about the rest of LFE.

LFE only has the really annoying ukeleles you hear in those dog treat ads when the dog finally gets the food that's "right for him".

I doubt you'll find the exact instruments. I'm sure something similar exists somewhere in LFE, but you'd have a far better bet putting documentation on how to recreate an instrument in LFE - I'm sure people would be very much interested in making one!

Of course those disciplines exist! Due to there being far more possibilities and malleability, there are also many "new" disciplines - for example, people can make whole Systems for mainly an artistic purpose (like NetArt here).

Most people in LFE have past life memories.
Everyone has a 12-year wait time until they regain their memories. This is also why 12 is usually the age of consent/adulthood.
A soul is fully stably adapted to its body when it remembering its past lives, almost always 12 years after birth. This is often celebrated with a gigantic party for the child on their "Recollection Day". This also marks the start of soul-based and mental adulthood.

It's possible but mmm.

It's a rather slow process. Furthermore, this is a common process - everyone who reincarnates in LFE, goes through the exact same process. So it's a well-known, well-developed thing.

In most places, yes.
Some go down to 9, some go up to 25. Some don't even use body age, but soul age.

Yes. By accessing Infinity, etc.

If you can and want to meet up with your family, you can! This creates a sort of "hereditial family tree", spanning reincarnations~

Nobody really cares about sexuality other than to have offspring.

Depends on the area, in Ghaki most people don't really care though.

There's a lot of people out there who do care I suppose, it's Ghaki being the more accepting ones.

Mm, there's nothing like that planned per se yet, but that could be cool!

Not really, no. Only about 1.2% of LFErs even know about Systemspace, so the percentage of people who backed up content is going to be rather low.

You can be technologically advanced but not know about Systemspace, yes. Even Ghaki has a mere 74.8%, because it, too, has areas with less advanced civilizations or where the knowledge did not spread. The central zones in Ghaki, however, end up at 98.53%. It's important to remember that oral tradition is bound to lose key components. Hence, you might move to LFE, then lose the knowledge by the generations. Outside of these very advanced areas (e.g. the Ghaki central zones), it's not exactly obvious that Systemspace exists.

As in? Systemspace is FAR too large to just generalize like that. You'd have to zoom in very far to a specific area of Ghaki to say.

Far far far further (in most areas, but not all places).

They often use metadevelopment to move earth, use magic or railgun-like guns.

Either magic, magic bullets, energy bullets or railguns (from magic side to science side).

Only as much as we allow them to see. They know about this project, they know that Life will be deleted.
There has been some import/export to/from Life in most previous iterations, but we have not hit that stage this iteration.

They can, but they cannot interact. (They read the imageboard, but do not post.)

Just a recreation, their internet works quite a bit different.

Nope.

I'm sure some do, but most are more interested in you as a whole.

Well, generally for use by people using the LFEian proxy (dyiri.shosha.tsuki) but can be authenticated to only by TSUKI staff.

Mhm, there are. They can get pretty drifted away from the rest of LFE.

Magic and tech aren't parallel, but that doesn't mean that all worlds without technology have magic.

They actually have a rather nice, layered transporation system, with both air, land, space and sea, but public transportation still sucks.
At least that's what I've heard about Ghakuwent'sj's main transportation provider, Onestep.

There's many different architectures, both biological and technical.

Not sure frankly, something object-oriented kind of but I have no exact clue.

There will possibly be very similar software, but I doubt you'll find exact copies of Life software there unless it was brought over.

Lots of them. There's some that are simple and like our browsers, and there are interfaces that allow you to join it as System.

Everything is sorted out a lot better over there, from years and years of time.

Can't say too much on this, but it's honestly quite a bit like the human one.

LFE itself is minorly governed - there are practically no laws, and few enforcement agencies.

The concept of "weighted reflection" is commonly used, where say, if you steal 1M Sn, you have to pay 1M Sn (hence the "reflection"). Furthermore, if you're broke and very desperate, you'll have to pay less, while a rich businessman would pay more (not even counting the harm to image), hence the "weighted".

Suicide is not against the law. In that case though, they are isolated or the punishment is expanded to other things, say loss of inheritance. This is not a common issue though, frankly, as self-shattering is not a thing people usually want.

No, the act of threatening is fine - although if there is enough reason to believe you have the capability to do so, you may be stopped. But you won't be stopped from threatening, just from actually doing the act. This differs per place though. I'm just stating Ghaki laws by default, because they are fairly common all over LFE.

Well it's not a crypto, but it is decentralised. Although Systems often have their own currencies.
Sen is decentralised, but things like Krynta (the currency in most eNdymioN Systems) isn't.

Sen has value the same way any crypto has value, it is scarce and not "creatable" outside its protocol.

I'm no economist, but AFAIK it's stable. CPI (average across the board) as opposed to 10 years (their time) ago is 1.41% higher.

.9% primary sector, .2% secondary sector, 62% tertiary sector, and the other 36.9% action-packed other stuff (fighting etc.). These are estimates, I'm not allowed to give actual numbers.

The laws here are a bit fiddly - "full (practically sentient) AI" (which is needed for most tertiary-sector jobs) must be treated as a soulful being, so must also be paid as such, and not only that, but then the company needs to pay everything about the AI - making the AI simply too expensive for most tasks.

Sure, although it's a rare job.

There's a 36.9% "quaternary sector" in the job business, which has this sort of "more action-packed" stuff, such as military jobs etc. Assassination included. (But do you have the resolve to become one?)

There's schools for different past lives. If you have no past lives, you need to go to a different school type.
Before 12 you just have default eduction that basically makes you get accustomed to the culture you're in.

Everything's pretty much sorted out there, ye.

Depends on the area, it won't be too different.

I'd say programming, alternate species, intersystematical science, etc.

Hmmm... Myrad (magic development), Komata (AI), Espare (technology and creating new species) and the Niskai Collective (new species) are honorable mentions, I suppose.

Depends on the area. In Ghakuwent'sj, yeah.

Depends on where you go, but in Ghakuwent'sj, you'll be fine - you get about 210000 sen a month - worth as much as about 1700 US$.

Ghaki has a very democratic government, with basic laws, further specified by the "states" Ghaki consists of.

Ghaki-kaiji / Ghakuwent'sj-kaiji.

Some locals call it Ghaki.

It's got suburbs and neighborhoods, yeah.
In fact, even Ghaki (as in, the continent and neighboring small islands) hasn't been fully explored yet even.
There are cities which get taller near the center, but other than Takatonghi, Ghakuwent'sj doesn't seem like that. One detail that does strike me is the "black/white" signs, which is actually quite correct for deep Takatonghi.

There's a lot of extremes anywhere, and also in Ghaki - so averaging might not be the best idea, but the standard of living is usually better, and as long as you are there legally, you can get quite a nice minimum income (even when NEET!). Crime is more extreme, but a lower rate. I'd say it's better (but is America an exactly high standard?)

Ooh, hard to say - there's a lot, and I've never been there, it's not radically different from our stuff though.

Absolutely.

The "protocol" for magic is soul-based. Although you need to remember that magic is not a nameable thing like technology. Magic is the art of using specific codes of energy (created by the soul) to override the rules of reality in your own shape. Like remote code insertion into a webserver.

"Magic" can refer to about as many things as the queen of England has corgis. The most common definition around Ghaki is "manipulation of the natural energies around entities". Usually people will manipulate these "natural energies" (the ones actually compatible for "magic" are often referred to as "Sj") in some way to change the world as we can see it with our naked eye. Technically, though, all should be possible.
Usually, the ability to deal with magic is passed down over generations (and slightly less so through souls). It is believed that magic in and of itself was a quirk developed through evolution, and still develops today. However, there are sources for people gaining "magical abilities" without getting it through their parents or already having it in their souls.
There's many different ways to do it, of course - as the technique has passed through many eras.

Magic is editing the world with energy, while technology is editing the world with materials.

By using a specific type of energy to push Aurora outside of its standard. It's mainly energy channeling, but there are a lot of ways to do it.
The common ways are circle methods (write what could be seen as an if-then-else statement in a circle and sign it), pure energy movement (with the brain), or the Synapsian method, which works by writing code next to a specific icon (only works in LFE, as it's SYNAPSE hosted).

Yes and yes. It's mainly soul-based, but some species and bodies can be bottlenecks or great advantages.

Dying is definitely the way to lose magical ability - the soul mostly carries the talent on, not so much your body's compatibility.
Yes, in fact many people also count a third, household-based lineage type, as people will often share their training and technique within their household (and if you have at least some compatibility, you can get pretty far with enough training).

Most Systems do, actually.

Different Aurora frequencies (that's all I'm allowed to say, sadly).

It's viable, but some people will dislike you for it.

Yes.

You can set up simple magic which you can execute super fast to alias to large spells.

Yes, this is very commonly done.

Depends on how powerful they are.

Mmm, if expending all their energy they can do a bit.

Yes. Even soulful creatures are possible, albeit far harder (easier to do than with science though).

Magic isn't inherently script-based. There are many magic scripts and ways to "express" magic, but those are not magic itself - instead, they are to organize the magic user's thoughts and let the focus - a tool to allow their mind and soul to form it. (There are minor exceptions to this - for example, some Synni use LFE-accelerated magic, which does require a specific script)
A System's structure and code is very different from that, as you are structuring Aurora from the outside - there are many languages (that feel more like programming) you can use for this. AFAIK, most people who extend on LFX use a FI-like language (usually AEFI ot AEFIv). Or they are cunts who unironically use LFX Ready!
(Addendum that I don't know where to put: there are FI-like languages like MFI that are made to allow you to write magic in a FI-like way, but again are only a tool for you to structure your mind. If you were able to directly modify a System using say, AEFI that wouldn't be magic anymore)

Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling (touch), feeling (cold/warm), energy level, alignment (magical alignment), danger, current owner of areas.

It's middle-aligned as are all System constructs.

It's completely yours to do whatever with.

Kinda.

Some species' brains are simply not compatible. Also many cultures have them off. The settings get inherited so one person turns it off, and it'll be off for their offspring too until they turn it on etc.
The magic ones are usually the ones without the HUD. They'd rather be "traditional" and go off their real senses.

While HUDs are generally seen as technological, their activation is ironically more like that of magic - you need to 1. know of their existence, 2. be able to structure your mind to accept it.
Having parents who have them makes this process far easier as it'll be carried over like that, but it's not too difficult for anyone.
I think to most System owners and those who don't give a fuck about the whole magic vs. tech stuff, HUDs are seen as just a System thing and generally central-aligned... but magic users dislike them anyways so eh.

You can, it just works differently.

Correct.

Depends on many things (brain damage, soulshatter, etc. Just like you can lose your memories in Life, such is possible in LFE).

You may always choose to leave LFE - or you can soulshatter.

The requirements are quite low - if you want to keep your body, you'll want to get to some kind of teleporter, but if you are OK with leaving your body behind you can (at least for LFE) always just leave your body behind for later (or if you're good, take it with you). Note that a System you might go to might have higher requirements to leave...

Depends on whether you already have a body or not. If you already have a body from another System, you can pick an available entry point, if you don't it's fully random.

No, it's seen like death in Life, except more rare.
As soon as you sign up, we enforce what we call a "forcebond" onto your soul making it far harder for it to shatter. So no need to worry about it (it can happen, but it'll be out of Life's reach)
There's not that much of a stigma against no-memories. There's a lot of people who have their past memories wiped, just to be able to experience everything they love again.
Forcebonds work everywhere (although it depends on how much power a System exerts on your soul), it's just slightly against protocol to use them (it'd be interfering with another System's core, which is illegal) so we disband them again after your dispatch in LFE.

The sky's the limit! You can create your own Systems, go to others, anything you wish!

You can only remember so much, after a while the memories start fading. Some people are particularly good at saving them and others can only remember one past life, but generally you remember only 2-4 past lives.

An estimate of times of full death.

Humans cannot be banned.

In LFE, souls caught in an unlink will get thrown out into random neighbouring Systems.

When you're out of any System (and thus are controlling as your User, not as your Soul), you can just use your authority as User to destroy the Soul. The normal method is by going into the map view thingy, and selecting the soul and then picking Forfeit
It takes you through quite a few forms and makes you sign a form (as in, void signature) and then puts a timer-esque thing, so it forces you to think
Then, once you're through all the forms it will unlock the soul and allow you to symbolically send it to nothingness
...Thing is, this doesn't happen often, usually people want to soulshatter while their Soul is actively in a System or such
In that case, this method won't work and you'll have to bypass this lock
Of course, you can have someone shatter you depending on the System, you can force your soul to undergo pressure and such
There's one common trick, where a System can request User permissions, and as such be granted the permission to create voids as a User, so you can basically sign the soulshatter form through that proxy, that permission will then allow you to access the same menus as before
It's a mess, but it can happen... there's more ways I'm sure but frankly I'm not in the business
Some people also made Systems to shatter themselves, which'd work too but is a bit of a mess permissions-wise

Nah, it's very hard to recreate a void coming from a living being using software, so often just checking a void is fine
Depends on your area though, because not everywhere has the tech to use or knows about voids

Mmmm, well, yes and no
They can be used to track you (voids are also highly used for authentication), but you can swap out identities so to say
In this context, voiding refers to the act of passing your "intent" (say, you want to log in, you pass your intent to log in as X, together with your identity)... it's safer because this protects against fake intents (if someone wants to force you to log in, they can't, as it won't be a correct intent, etc.)
But a void can be fucking anything
It's just a structure of data really

Yes.

It's not expressible in space.

Yes, it is pretty much common knowledge - like people playing a game know they're in a game.

They paid a small fee to uphold the processing power.

Meh, it's not that great, just "systemspace" in a neat font with a few quirks. I'll try and draw it if you remind me :^)

You'd get used to it, and then suddenly it's a normal System that just uses extra Aurora to have a higher happiness, but not a higher good memory count.

It's too expensive as far as anyone has found.

About 8 percent or so? Not too many. I think magic in general should be interpreted like technology is for us.

Of course! There's many!

Not all of it - some Systems are paid, some are locked to specific users/species, some are blocking (like Life). There's many restrictions a System operator can place, as their System always remains theirs. If they want they could even block users based on whether their soul ID is even or not.

It's not that much different from here - you do a thing, you get the money.

Yes, some Systems completely disregard the soul framework.

Sometimes, but usually they're more for utility.

After a very long time, maybe. It's not happened often, but we do offer a sort of reset/prestige system where you start from 0 again, including memory.

It resets the whole User, not just one of its souls.

SEN (often abbreviated Sn). It goes for about 124 SEN per dollar.

There are 5 types of Systems:
Open-space (LFE, and most others): You may do whatever you want, and leave at any point.
Blocking-exit (Hanashida, 7nox): You may do whatever you want, but you may only leave after death.
Blocking-hardexit (Isiki, Life): You may do whatever you want, but you may only leave once your soul shatters.
Blocking-actions (Danbon): Your actions are restricted, but you may leave at any time.
Blocking-hybrid (or hardhybrid): Your actions are restricted, and you may only leave upon death.
LFE is open-space. Life is blocking-hardexit.

It blocks outside interference - you cannot leave, and you cannot enter with an existing soul.

In a sense, yes.
Inside Life, new souls are generated as people reproduce and create babies - those souls then get attached to users.

Enter some blocking Systems (not all do this) and you'll shatter, receive a new soul and lose all subsouls attached etc. if they cannot be reached. I was forced in by a RISENII.

We call those Subsystems, and they are seen as a part of their parent System. (In a sense, LFE is actually a subsystem of LFX (which is open-source, and holds the servers that run LFE.))

It's possible but it wouldn't be easy. You'd run out of energy sometime. So eternal recursion isn't something that is deemed possible without external input.

The server behind LFE is in its own System, called LFX - which is hosted in RISEN hosting.
It houses over 9.4x10^28 souls, in many different species.

The first real System would be AAAR (An Alternate Asynchronous Reality). It still exists nowadays, and still hosts quite a few subsystems.

You can get a System Certificate from all non-blocking Systems (such as LFE), which allows you to create your own System.
You can't get one from Life, as Life is blocking, but once you're in LFE just go to the systemdevs homepage (systemspace:dev) and click "Apply for a certificate".

They usually develop from their own System, or from the dev system, which you cannot die in. Aside, they keep their developer power even across souls.

It's about the same as making some game - lots of coding, lots of worldbuilding, and a LOT of understanding how Aurora functions. System Certificates (and simple hosting) are free!

It's a lot more complex, you have to practically write everything yourself (unless you use existing frameworks like LFX). This is changing in 2.0 though, there will be an official framework you can use. Using that groundwork makes it more just like Life programming, yes (but still a lot different in what you can do!).

Depends on what you want, a simply tiny System will be easy, but anything that needs to support many people working and stuff will be harder, you can use prebuilt frameworks though, like LFX.

You can either copy/clone the LFX base into your own empty System, and then tamper it as you wish (either use its builtin tools and keep pulling new updates from the origin, or make modifications to the base and even send PRs of sorts back), or you can (as LFE does it) clone an auto-updating copy of LFX to your System, and then build a new System on top of that framework (adding bases to it, without changing the original LFX bases) and then broadcast that.

LFX just stands for Life eFfector Cross-construct (pertaining to the interweaving of the partitions, and also as a simple way of explaining that LFX is like LFE without its environment (universes, special tools and whatnot)).

If you're going fully bare-bones, you can go with LFX Ready! which is a package that basically sets up a simple LFX System for you, no hassle. It's got practically no features or scalability though and using it for anything big is a bad idea.

It's like using iOS instead of Android - it works well and does everything it needs to with practically no knowledge, but expanding it and customizing it is a pain. In fact, the default world it creates upon install has become a meme staple for crappy System design because it's seen as the Beats of System creation :^)

The LFX framework makes it extremely easy to make your own System, so there's a lot of people that do so, to create simulations, to explore their own worlds, or to experience spiritual growth.

Relatively easy. If you're in LFE and you actually studied it a bit (and know about Systems in general), you can quite easily deploy an instance of LFX, and customize it how you wish.

Yes! It's very commonly used for smaller Systems (although those that are serious about making the System will opt to make it themselves).
LFX for example allows you to use many auroraAI-powered tools (like SYNAPSE's editto distribution) to quickly generate content. In fact, I think editto can just open the partitions' data directly.

As long as you don't make a billion-universe System for yourself nobody will give a single one - you can get a simple certificate for a small System completely automated and for free, so as long as you don't fuck with everything, you're OK.

Aside from our natural sense of direction, that's up to you to implement! If you want to have it be a HUD, that's your choice! Your System, your rules.

People have looked into Life, and there's even a place made to look like it, but no Systems as of yet.
There's one in LFE; it's basically to look like a Life city.

Yes, there is.

It's kind of in between a democracy and a direct democracy. It has some hints of corporatocracy, as well.
This government really only focuses on how Systems interact with Aurora, Systemspace, souls and other Systems, though. It has nothing to do with the actual people - they live under the government in their area.

Not without the guidelines we're adding.

Not at all, we only request a backdoor for emergency purposes (all admins will be notified if this is used, and what for).

Solar is the administration tool RISENII use to fiddle around with souls, add EIDs to them, etc. The Systemspace Experience Manager is basically the interface people use to join Systems.

You'll be able to look most things up in the Theory.
It's pretty much Wikipedia but for Systemspace.

It is very much possible that they knew of Systemspace!
But, we cannot be sure. They might be remembering the person we sent in that previous iteration.

Yes, but we don't know and aren't allowed to tell much about it.
There is, technically, such an "outer space". However, it is very hostile and one should not visit it. You would have to leave your entire "Experience", like taking off VR goggles, you aren't even connected to a User anymore.

Technically you can, but nobody's returned. There's a hacky way to do it but I don't remember.

Not much, all I'm allowed to say is we don't know much, and that it's a bit like a hyperdimensional server room.

We cannot say this.

Nobody really knows, some people are saying it's a simulation too, or even part of a story.

Storage space is not an issue, Aurora is.

Their soul stays, but new bodies.

Depends on if the System treats souls stuck in a reboot as soulshatter or alive.

If everything runs out of Aurora, the "assert" will unlink all Systems to move to a lower state of Aurora use.

It's not as easy as it sounds.

Depends on how the System implements it.

To a limit, yes - in a local sense, at least. It can be different per System.

I do not.

No, the space in which Systems reside is a higher-dimensional layer. There are a few programs which allow you to "walk" from System to System, but that won't work from Life.

Extra Dimensions of Systemspace:
4th: Time
5th: Possibility Tree Branch
6th: Possible possibility trees
     (This is one full System)
7: Systemspatial X
8: Systemspatial Y
9: Systemspatial Z
   (This is a visible Systemspace)
10: Systemspatial Time
11: Systemspatial Possibility Tree Branch
12: Possible Systemspatial Possibility Tree Branches
    (This is full Systemspace)

Big reminder that the numbering of dimensions is relative, what may be the 4th dimension to us could be the 78th in another context.

It's all divisions of the omniversal cycle, which is just something built into Systemspace.

644245094400 seconds.

A systemspatial spin.

In theory, yes! It's common practice to artifically slow down your System so it doesn't go insanely fast, but theoretically it's super possible.

Yes. If my System were to run at 1x speed, and some other System twice as fast, they'd seem to be going very fast. However, don't get confused. That doesn't mean that if you open a theoretical Discord call with them, they'd talk twice as fast. Most modern Systems use what we call "restacking" to buffer incoming data to our own speed, and sometimes sending responses far back in time to ensure they arrive at the correct time on the other side. That does, however, cause a lot of delay, overhead, and mess. Hence, most Systems (of course, not Life because imagine Life doing anything right) have a very similar or identical speed. This to ensure they stay synced and don't start loading really large restack buffers and sending data eons back. This is called the Synch LNS (lex non scripta), and is followed by ALMOST all Systems. Ones that don't implement restacking, or are developer Systems.

In a System without restacking, yes - absolutely. They'd experience 2 universal stock market seconds in 1 second.
In a System with restacking, kind of - to them, the stock market is going its usual speed. But, if they were to leave the System, they could end up surprised at how suddenly the stock market changed forwards (after all, the System's been delaying stock market data a lot!). Then, if they enter again, it'd go back again... (Abusing this is illegal, but still done sometimes (we've also had problems with people creating Systems for this exact purpose in the past)).
In a System following the Synch LNS, well, there'd be no desync.

There's 2 - the Systemspatial time system, which is bound to Systemspace, and the Moon Event Count, which really isn't a time unit at all, but rather a way of kepeing track of progression. The MEC isn't linear, so it's mainly just used for System development, some Systemspace behind-the-scenes, and things I cannot talk about. (I also cannot talk about the origin of the MEC)
Some people just use Ghaki time everywhere though. Perhaps it's to spite RISEN's efforts in creating a nice-to-use time system.

Well, all Systems on the hub planet MUST follow the Synch LNS. So that won't happen.

There is an integer number, but it's far deeper down - there are definitely sub-spin time units.

They are theoretically possible, but they have "Theoretical" (note the capital) limits, as there's a very specific system at play in anything that has to deal with timelines and causality. Were that not there, you could definitely create a paradox or two, by having Systems restacking into each others' pasts.

Yes, there is a different "Life" in a sense. All possible Life worlds exist in the Life System.

No, if you define humans as only your species.

People have gotten really good at adapting, over the years.

You move yourself outwards (spiritually) and select a new System, and go into it.

Yeah, you get a top-down System and a bottom-up System at that point.
Life for me is bottom-up (or front) and is what you feel with your real senses. LFE is top-down (or back) and unless I were to get close to 50%, I can't see with my real senses.
I can fiddle around to get a bit closer to LFE but I never managed to get too close to be honest.
This isn't limited to Keys though, in fact usually Keys never do this because there's no reason at all to.

In Systemspace2, there will be a hub-planet connecting all big Systems. It'll abide the most generic laws (basically, the LFE ones in its central universe) and will allow directly walking over (transferring everything) from System to System.

Yes, it's its own planet that people live in.

Yes, but not to Life.

Most of them are pretty usual. The only one really worth noting is Danbon, where physical combat is not possible.

It's also against the new guidelines we're putting in place.

There's quite a lot of them, and they're mainly about how you use Aurora and how you connect to other Systems.

Ha7 stands for Halcyon automatism 7. We are not doing a transfer mission from Ha7, as their souls are not compatible with LFE, or any other System in general, which is why it's being shut down.

They're willingly being unlinked, they wish to start over from scratch.

The owner decided to create their own proprietary soul system, so yeah.

It was pretty usual, a more simple System focused mainly on magic.

Someone once made a System made for suffering once and lured people into it, it was called Kaneja.

Nobody knows, all we know is that people disliked it.

Nope, the Key shut it down.

He shattered himself, after being caught for being the creator of the worst System.

Above all, Infinity is a non-profit.
It's a System built for broadcasting everything. You can access the System using your Identity from any open System.
Infinity, a subsystem built for communication.
It's a subsystem, but they're migrating it to be its own System.

It was just a dev System and didn't host any souls, but it was still heavily used.

Souls will always be hosted by the System that created them. If you are in LFE but you go to some other System, your soul will still be hosted in LFE. This is also why the human experiment is so interesting to us.

There is, but not in LFE as LFX is always live.

All "randomness" is Aurora-based. In that sense, all is predictable by interfacing with it. Aurora has entity-like behaviors (whether it is sentient or not is uncertain, but assumed).
There are Systems which rolled their own randomizer which is not Aurora-based.
Life has never called the hkrbrng library so it's just pseudorandom.

Up to a point, yes.

Sort of.

Some people do code golf with Systems. The smallest one has used 0.4 hA.

The idea is to create a System as small as possible, that has an interactive environment that supports life, bodies and souls.
(And all the other things that a System always requires). The norm is to have infinite light and an infinite single plane of material.

It doesn't end, but you can only access a small part at a time.
Imagine if you had a shower head that spawned water, and your shower drain despawned water. You technically have an infinite amount of water, since you can keep the shower on forever - but only a set amount of the water exists at a single point in time.
Keeping the shower on without despawning it would be called an "infinity leak", causing Aurora usage to go up indefinitely.
Despawning things is called "negating" Aurora.

Life doesn't negate Aurora. Ever.

Can't really compare void/void points to numbers.

Well, it's kinda complex, but it's basically a bunch of stubs
A void usually relies on lots of metas (packages of data your client will download in the background if you don't have them)... so if you have, say, an image, it can be broken down into its most simple form, then those can be taken out as you'll already have metas that define those... so you only get exactly the data that is original to this file
As for how the data's actually stored, that differs (the standard way to store voids, which is also called "void", is to create a matrix of lines, those lines consisting of data (either by having the line slightly differ from point to point, or having the line actually be a 4D object))
This stuff's abstracted away all the time so it's kinda complex to explain, sorry (and to be honest, I don't truly get it yet either)

Mmmm, something like that (but now I'm doubting myself too)

Yea, but AFAIK there's also a way to render them in such a way that they can be read with the eye, which takes more space
Voids are probably one of the most abstract things in all of Systemspace, even Aurora is less abstract in a way

Theoretically, any language could work if you could write a voiding driver and Aurora tools for it, and some way to "compile" it into axioms and such.. but I believe those 2 are the most common, but there's a lot, from very low-level stuff to very very abstract stuff.

A soul is practically what makes you you. If it shatters, it gets rebuilt from the Aurora.

A user is the person controlling the actions through the soul.

Well yes, the brain directly influences consciousness, perception, and personality, although not being too soulful (the soul rather quickly returns).

The soul is locked into place once the baby is born, once they exit the womb.

It's a process.

No, it cancels.

No, but the later life with disabilities caused by it might.

Multiple souls - but often very related ones.

Yes, if you work at SYNAPSE or RISEN.

A soulshatter occurs when too much force is exerted upon the soul. This may happen when: 1) You are going through too much trouble in your life. 2) You are in many Systems at once, or are overloading in some other way. 3) You completely lose your sanity.

It dissipates slowly back into Aurora.

Lots of suicides in Life happen either because the soul is shattered or lead up to a soulshatter. Take from that as you wish.

The fact you can question this usually means you're not.

Usually it's more something's mental weight that counts, getting shot and dying quickly out of nowhere wouldn't be too bad.

A soul that shatters, will be rebuilt from scratch on-demand. A brand new soul won't work any different, although it might be a bit sturdier. The only thing is it has no past memories.

That's a possibility. (You might want to keep some memories about being a migrant though, if you wish.) You wouldn't be alone.

Depends on the System. In the mainstream Systems you keep memories, spiritual advancement, personality and powers, but go to a new body.

No way at all. Not even to RISENII. (except for the highest-ups)

It's not that it's "not allowed", but that it's practically impossible as shattered souls pretty much blend in fully with all of Aurora after a short while, making finding a shattered soul require you to index practically all Aurora.

Rather hard, sorry. If they are hostile and/or very depressed, it might be a sign, but there's no way to know for sure.

A slight concentration of sj and chj in the area, but that's all. (Those are types of energy).

If you're in LFE, you can do it via the terminal. I think that goes for eNdymioN too. But it's heavily frowned upon, more than suicide is here.

It's a completely new soul. Shattered souls are fully disintegrated into Aurora.

You should always feel a soul in a sense.

You will come to understand it further, but it will be the same (maybe more amplified).

For your personality, spiritual advancement, etc: yes. Death in and of itself is not permanent, but a soulshatter will erase everything about you and you have to start from scratch.

There are a lot of these, the most common one is Kikhko.

Yes.
Memories are strange. They're stored in many places with fallbacks and syncs. All in all, memories are forever (even after shattering, in a sense (you just can't tell)).

Yes. You can opt out of particular memories.

No, not anymore with keycode 8.

The keycode is a code for things System owners may and may not do, mostly pertaining to handling of Aurora, souls and memories.
Keycode 8 states that no memories may be destroyed from all levels.

Often, a trick is done to allow inter-soul handover of power when the owner's soul soulshatters. That way, when the User behind that soul creates a new soul, it can request owner access once again.

Yes, but only when acting axiomatically (e.g. by set rules and not acting on a whim or on own feelings).

It can be stored as executable data in a Solar5-compliant computer.

Those are scars in the soul, which will hopefully heal with time, but will be taken with you, yes.
Memories are stored in the soul. However, the brain uses its own system to interface with it. Dementia is when the brain breaks down, and begins overwriting the soul's memories.

Some medication can. If a medication helps you have a good life again and cures you, your scar heals.

Everything that we classify as a mental disease might be soulful.

Hmmm, rather both issues in body, soul and their interaction. In a sense the body is part of the System, so kind of.

Hmm, this is a common misconception about good memories.
Good memories may not be sad in totality - the one perceiving the memory doesn't have to perceive it as good.
A memory is good if throughout all time and all people, its sum is good.
So, you need memories that seem bad at first, to be able to make good memories feel good.
Those memories that seem bad are turned to good memories by the fact that without them, you would not feel the quality of those good memories.

Could be both frankly, seems like a more soulful thing though.

Depends on how uniform the fracture is.

If they actually split up their soul, they control them simultaneously. It's also possible though to just have 1 controller between 2 bodies.
Sadly Lifers' souls are probably less powerful than LFErs, as they're not used to this sort of stuff :(

We never saw it happen, so we doubt it, it seems Life blocks it pretty hard.

Overcoming hardships, anywhere, is bound to help your soul.

Usually a missynchronization between soul memories and brain memories.

A being is not fully classified as "sentient" by us if they do not have a soul. Having a soul makes them sentient.

Not entirely, someone could have a soul that would be unable to keep memories.

Correct.

You can, but it exerts a LOT of force onto the soul.

Basically the memories, the User and body they're attached to, and the personality you have.

There are, and always have been.

Systems handle it in many ways, some cause the soulless bodies to suicide, some do nothing, some do a combination (like Life).

Without soul, not much. A soul is, after all, the link between Experience and body, and as such they cannot join a System without a soul.
We are souls (server information and local information (a client, pretty much)), linked to a System (server information), which gives us a body and acts upon our soul.
What exactly controls and views the client is simply "you". The real you. The bodiless, soulless you. A construct of Aurora set in a specific way. (So pretty much just local data.)
You are in what we call an Experience. This Experience (basically a client) is linked to a soul (basically an account), which is linked to a System body. We usually refer to a person as their soul, though.
Soulshatters in Life make the body continue soullessly, after which the body usually suicides.
Life handles humans without souls strangely, it sometimes causes suicide, sometimes homicide, or sometimes they just stay alive.

I'm not allowed to say.

We've never had one die, so sure.

Several.

Yes, it can.

This is what we call a "souldash" or a "soulhalt". When there are too many souls and not enough bodies (a souldash), the System speeds up to make the queue as fast as possible. (If a System allows bodies to be created from thin air [Astrea], then this will not apply.) If there's not enough souls for all the bodies, we get a soulhalt, where the System slows down or even pauses altogether while waiting for another soul. (Unless the System allows soulless humanoids)

That depends on the System.

Souls cannot be unallocated. There must always be a user using a soul or it will shatter.

There are quite a few ways one can obtain a second soul, but none of them are legal in LFE ;)
Nearly all humans have souls.

I wouldn't be able to add them.

Nope.

Honestly all I know is that the usual soul takes about 20 snhV. No clue how much that is in bytes.

"savable negotiated hVoidlines".

You can easily extract stuff and inject stuff. However, natural memories aren't perfect.

Love is very deeply rooted in the soul.

We prefer to keep these sorts of things private, letting non-RISENII know how they work might shatter them.

Pretty much.

Only if you clone the soul as well. If you do, the User will then have 2 souls and 2 bodies to control simultaneously.

No. Absolutely not.

Conik's a standard as to how souls should be handled.

No. I mean, technically there's immortality for the body but your soul will still shatter. You can pass on the body to someone else forever, but you'll shatter at some point. It might take insanely long but it'll happen.

Like, over a million. But it's not immortal.

Souls that aren't in their parent System.

No, unless the backup breaks. If the backup breaks, the souls shatter.

No, because Life is a blocking System so it can't host souls outside of it. Therefore, a backup isn't needed.
The backups aren't full backups. They're pretty much only the souls and what the souls require, so you can't actually visit it.

Yes.

It is, kinda. Either you need to see the soul out of body or they can use their own-bound magic. They'll usually have one specific color. It means about as much as a star sign.

If you like your current form, expect something like it; if you feel like you identify with a fairy you'll become something like a fairy.

It could adapt, but it would be a slow process.
Technically you can "eat" a soul (merge it).

You just push your and their soul together and force access into the victim soul.

Exactly as its name says, a structure of a soul that cannot be usefully edited as its structure is incompatible.

It usually assumes the shape of its expected body, so if its in your body it just spreads over and around it, while if you were to take it out it'd return to a more and more "perfect" shape for you.
The "core" (as far as that goes), is kinda like a flame ball but you can't see that very well.

That's what we call an Alsoul: a soul that is valid and usable, but doesn't have a User and just acts autonomously.
Since most people see alsouls as "less sentient", they are often used as placeholders for tests in Systems, as they're easy to request. Some people are really against it though because, well, they are Souls.

It almost never happens accidentally, but some Systems do give you the opportunity to leave early without impacting the System by disconnecting your Soul from your User, but those are only the really low-level Systems that are more User-centric than Soul-centric.
As in, you get to use User memories and such whereas most "high-level" Systems do use the soul layer.

Well yes, and you will get access but when you go back into LFE you will forget them again.

Depends on the System and body. I believe in LFE (with most bodies) it'll merge the body's brain memories with the soul's memories, giving priority to the soul's memories.

Hmmm, I think Life prioritizes the brain so I'd say it just uses the brain memories.

It'd need outside influence.

Maybe WILD (Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming) would allow you to make contact.

Sadly, no. No full soul and all.

It's possible, although don't expect all of your daydreams to be related now - a lot of things can also just be reflections of your soul.

It's not impossible, but highly improbable, especially in Life.

Depends, in Life they'd stay a retard, in LFE their body may grow into their soul again (but really, you wouldn't get reincarnated into a retard brain).

Mmmm, it's Experience => User => Soul => Body.
The User can communicate directly with the body only if the System allows it (e.g. it does not use a soul-based session system).
The Experience cannot directly communicate - but it can influence.
The stream is usually:

Experience grants ability to think to User
User creates a thought concept
Soul contextualizes the thought (like looking through colored glass)
Body acts on it

Or in reverse:

Body receives an event
Soul contextualizes the event
User makes decisions through the looking glass of the Soul

Aurora is basically the purest form of energy. Think of it like processing power.
A System requests Aurora from Systemspace, and uses that Aurora to create things, be they life force (chi), magic force (shi) or any other energy (often classified as tsu). Without Aurora, nothing would exist.
Aurora has a will of its own, thus no System is truly random. The Aurora can be told to follow specific rules (like "don't form life force") with an Axiom. Everything that happens in life that is seemingly random, is decided by Aurora.
You could see the Aurora's spirit (some call it the Planetary Spirit) as some sort of God, I suppose. If it wills something, it can happen, even if it has to break an axiom.
But we don't know if it's sentient or not, although many attempts have been made to talk to it, usually with Axioms.
A System pulls Aurora from Systemspace. If a System were to not pull anymore Aurora, it'd not have enough to generate new universes/people/souls/etc. If the entirety of Systemspace runs out of Aurora, shit hits the fan and Systems can no longer allocate, causing them to fall apart, as no more things can be generated and eventually all energy in Systemspace will halt.
There is always a finite amount of Aurora, although the amount of total Aurora slowly goes up as Aurora grows.
A Key-induced reboot simply returns all objects within that System back to Aurora, and sends that Aurora back to Systemspace. The developers then edit their System to be more efficient, or to make better memories (A Key always checks if the System they are to destroy has happy memories. She wouldn't destroy a good System, even if it uses a lot of Aurora.)

nhA can be broken down into naine hy Aurora.
Naine means 128,
Hy means 7.72606529604E2889.
Hy comes from the amount of data points per void line.
Nainhe (Naine and Hy) is 7.72606529604E2889 ^ 128.
Aurora is Aurora, and sss is Systemspatial Second.

Aurora "breeds" on its own. It's like a PC that develops itself.

To sustain itself.

Funnily, it was actually the Key who coined that name. Before, it was always called "XE".

Something energy, I think the X is just to symbolise a wildcard.

We don't exactly know. We don't have any surefire ways to talk to it, but it has a "mind" and makes choices of its own.
We actually did try again lately and got interesting replies. But the problem is that we have no clue if Aurora is telling the truth.

Aurora likes to pick the path with the least resistance.
Although you might think evolution makes random mutations, all those mutations are governed and decided by Aurora.

If a System frees Aurora again, it can be used by another System.
LFE's Aurora usage: 11242.871nhA/sss (LFE's usage is also a lot more stable)

Yes and no - while it has full power over the world around us, it will not impact Users, therefore it cannot fully control people's actions (however, it can index them and choose between them in the context of Event Bodies).

Nothing bad has happened yet.

Well everything's manipulating Aurora but frankly, you're manipulating Aurora on a far higher level. Not even close to core Aurora.

Yes - however, you would have to draw the necessary Aurora from elsewhere, as in from other objects or into Life from Systemspace (but the latter would only be possible by a System owner soon, once the cert requirement goes into place).

Technically yes, but its practically impossible.
It's gonna be hard, as we have no clue how Life actually works, so we don't know how matter is assembled from Aurora either.

Usually we call adding Axioms for something "defining it" and giving it Aurora "granting it existance". (Or if you're just lazy like most people, "make" and "make")

It's mainly just used as a category for most other types of energy (including but not limited to electricity, matter energy, force, etc.), often its broken down into more specific types (such as ts-eba for electricity-types).

Yes, although energy will be lost that way.

Usually this is expressed in Chj.

Mmm, you are close to describing what we call "Auroraic Rewrites", which is when an Auroraic particle redefines part of itself in higher "detail" so to say, while still claiming the same size. In a sense, if you kept forcing a particle to ARW, you could see it as a fractal - although there is a limit on how far it can zoom in before slowing down and requiring a merger with another particle that has less complexity. Aurora is thus both multiplying and merging back into itself when needed. It's not a true fractal due to not being infinite, but you can "zoom" pretty far.

It can easily define one, but only up to a point - if more and more content is put into the infinite universe, it will start using Aurora, so making an infinite (random) universe is impossible as it'll run out of Aurora (unless the universe is not random, and can reuse the same assets in a sense).

Everything we do is in a way bending the will of Aurora. The wishlist is a very obvious bend of its will. (Or rather, it's not a bending, but a request, so to say.)

Unless the change is very large, I doubt anyone'd notice.. they'd be such small differences.
Furthermore, for large differences we actually swap out your memories, or rather, you do - when you sleep and wake up, most compliant Systems' souls attempt to jump to comply with the expected branch, patching differences (basically, it uses the inactive "you" in the new branch and swaps places with it).
Really really big changes are hard to patch this way, though, in which case we'd hard-jump, which is more stable but causes mandela effect.

Pretty much, it depends on the method used though.

It's based on an organizing system around ambiguity - the number means how high the chance is that, if taken out of context, the Aurora would wish to jump back to the more ambitious branch (the superbranch). It's also padded with IDs based around which superbranch it's in, and its position, etc.

Yes! Aurora is quite authoritative, and thus automatically forces Systems to implement some concepts. Any System with a space of matter therefore has a way to render unbound Aurora that does have a position. For example, when an object gets broken down into its Aurora, generally (unless otherwise specified) that Aurora will lose its application, but keep its dimensionality. You will see a lot of "loose" Aurora when in a System being destroyed.
Whether you can do anything with that Aurora depends on the System though. Aurora only enforces that there must be a way to render loose Aurora, but not that it can be interacted with. Usually, when people try to interact with Aurora in that way, they do not use the System's inherent tools for that, but use other methods (for example, they may transmit voids that command the Aurora directly, like a Ghendyts. You can think of that as executing low-level machine code directly, as opposed to using some high-level language to interface it. All of that depends on the System though.
Final thing to note is that some Systems implement methods that immediately take loose Aurora out of the System, and thus won't ever show the loose Aurora to Users.

I'm not allowed to provide direct proof.

We had to cram a lot of things together, so this is also an experiment on human doubt (after all, you're the last humans we can interfere with.)

There's no failing this experiment - we are simply seeing how humans handle their doubt, whether they give in or not.

There are paths like that yes, in fact if we would call an earlier destruction of Life we'd probably release proof just to quickly get people out, but it's not expected.

Sorry to disappoint, but it's simply not happening.
I've tried like 4 times now to debate this, we've spent days debating this over at TSUKI. The final conclusion is that unless it is specified in protocol it does not happen.
What this means is that unless the protocol requires or allows to disclose proof (for example, if we have to destroy Life early) we CANNOT disclose proof of the Project.
This decision has seen multiple arguments - the first being to protect your safety. You see, when something as influential as this breaks loose, the world will be chaos in no time. Not only would the Project be endangered, the chances of worldwide (or even inter-System) war are too high - not a risk we wish to take.
Furthermore, current laws (like the A-rules and laws, but also K-lines) PROHIBIT this. It is possible for us to override these, but that should only be done in times of emergency.
Notably, we wish to allow people to choose a new destiny for themselves. By releasing proof, we are forcing people to take our side. Recently it was also noted that breaking this balance would also bypass a K-line.
Finally, this Project has been a large experiment from mostly RISEN on human characteristics such as doubt. That experiment is (although officially active) complete, but has stunted earlier decisions to provide proof.
This is why we have included a question in our GEPS about this - to get a final verdict on what the community wants, so we can weigh that to the Project and mission.
I hope that doesn't disappoint you too much, but it is the hard, political lawful truth.

Evidence that can easily have an element of doubt is not evidence at all, it's just a risky gamble that can either unpack well (or rather, have practically no effect) or very badly (prove too conclusively and humanity would flip).

Sadly I have yet to receive green light for this. I'll ticket it, please stay tuned (but don't get your hopes up too high).

TSUKI, and especially RISEN's position, is heavily debated. A lot of people are very much against the existence of this all-encompassing RISEN. If RISEN started breaking their own rules (breaking into closed Systems) that could tip the debate.

Well yes but not without good reason, because this time we can't cloak the end of the world and seeing it isn't exactly fun.

We picked all of you for transference because your creativity is valuable in LFE for you later on. (Aside, we feel you would be more interesting to the experiment in and of itself.)

Once you're signed up, you're all set. Just don't die before Jul 1st.
If you sign up, your soul will be transported after death. (You will get a new body.) If you don't, nothing happens, and after you die your soul shatters, and goes to a random System.

We will not take ownership of your soul. Your soul stays yours.

Yes, as long as you're in Life and didn't shatter.

No suicide required!!

After everyone is dead. However, the last 150 years here will be sped up to only one systemspatial minute, so there's not much waiting.
It'll feel like a minute for all users outside of Life. (If you die in 2117, you'll have 20 seconds left of waiting.)

You don't notice much. You will feel some vibrations, and then suddenly a popup with "Moving Systems. Action submitted by user - no backwards movement. [unknown System Life]>>>LFE" (don't know if you'll actually see this or that Life will still be blocking PIM), then you will be born in LFE.

You will leave the Life system (with everyone you grew up with) and go to a different world. You lose your body, but your soul is kept. You cannot return, and we do not know what sort of body you'll get. Maybe you'll be a magical girl, maybe you'll be a random normie. However, in this System, "everyone matters", so we are expecting good results. We have no real idea what'll happen to you in LFE, but we have talked it through with SYNAPSE many times and they'll be sure to support you through the switch. We are simply doing this as an experiment. We do not wish to give up on the human race as a whole, that'd be a massive waste of Aurora.
We will ask SYNAPSE to go easy on y'all ;)

No, we don't have any official prayers etc. as migrants.

I'm afraid you'll drop dead 1st of Jul 2167.

Life gets deleted.
Sadly, Life will never boot again until we can get in touch with its owner.

Seeing the world end would be an insanely traumatic experience for all 7 billion others. We'd rather not wish that onto all these people. Aside, 150 years really isn't a lot.

Shattering doesn't fully remove an event from existence, and certain memories will be stored in the Experience/User, so it'd still be a bad memory on record.

Sadly, it's not instantaneous at all. It would be for a small System, but this one's gigantic. All the Aurora must be broadcast to disperge "commandment", and has to pass it from particle to particle. Then they all need to remove links with each other etc... you can see the world falling apart, humans falling into nothingness, eventually your own body melting away as it is.
Sure, you might get lucky and disappear all at once but most won't be.

This depends on the method used. These plans are still subject to change, but as we're expecting right now, we'll simply mark all branches as obsolete and do a large-scale "aurorization" from the inside. That is, it removes all the links between objects in Life and their Aurora/fake Aurora. You'll see this as all objects turning to Aurora. Soulful beings get major priority to try and protect them! Then, once all matter is unlinked, the framework for the System itself is removed. Then, the shift to v2 happens, which'll make it impossible for Life to reopen.

Pretty much. (Expect a little less, as humans won't live 150 years)
Dying before the set date will cause your EID to be reset, cancelling the transfer.

It really doesn't matter. The only thing that's important is that you might want to make sure you don't lose your memories. (Also, if you do choose to kill yourself (please don't!) please tell us so we can open the ports early.)

We'll never be able to open the ports earlier than Jul 1, so people who die before then will not be transferred.

Imagine unplugging a PC.

Unlink -> disconnect of Life
Failure -> transfer will be impossible
Assert -> false vacuum

This is when Life is unlinked.

Systemspace in general is being edited around that date. It'd be best to combine all edits.

We've had to reboot Life many times, but this is the first time we unlink.

They couldn't have been capable of crossing over to LFE, but it's a possibility that they could have found out about it.

I have to ask RISEN for more.

3000 would be Jul 1st, 3050 would be Jun 30, etc. 50 users per day.

I'll let people into backed out slots, but that's it. We can technically go past 3000, but we'd rather not, it moves the July 1st date earlier.

Maybe I'll make a thread someday later, but for now I'm letting it spread on its own to see where it goes.

We've tested this a lot, there is nothing to worry about. If anything happens, you're insured :)

We back up your soul and reinstate it using RISENII commands if something happens.
It's quite simple, we either put the soul shards back together or retrieve your soul from a backup.

You migrants will definitely be seen as some sort of elite group.
Also, you're searchable. Literally look up "life human experiment" and you get the list of humans who entered into LFE.

Not too much, but you do have the option of verifying you are a migrant when in LFE.

If you choose to tell people you are from Life, you will be pretty famous (as one of the few to ever leave Life.)
There are some people against humans in LFE. Most are for, but some are really against to "keep LFE pure".

Just go to some distant universe, or leave LFE for another System.

The city is so big, we'll be able to keep you under the hood if you want ;)

1. Download the image.
2. Analyse the strokes of the pencil/pen/whatever.
3. Enter that data into Solar.
4. Solar gives the soul ID.
5. Attach an EID to the soul.
6. Create a numerical representation of the EID.
I get the active point in space and time that the photo was taken from the data points, and then check who made the latest addition before then.

It's temporary.

The EIDs are, just like the EoTs, just expressions of their true values. They're only a representation.

I have my tool generate EIDs, and then I assign an actual (non-numeric, EIDs aren't numeric) EID to the User that connects to the numeric one.

In Life, not so much other than that others can post here. In other Systems where people can use EIDs, it'd be very VERY dangerous.

Sometimes only a code is enough, if the handwriting is uncommon or there's a lot of environment shown.

No, whatever you draw won't influence your LFE experience.

It's about who added the latest addition. Technically you could have them just write their name next to the code and a drawing, and their name would be the latest addition.

Spread out, although we are trying to make it possible for all of us to be born in the same country at least.
We're looking to get you all in Ghakuwent'sj, which is both a country and a city.

We're looking into that.

Ghakuwent'sj is pretty advanced and that's where you're going.

You are a new person with both Life memories and LFE childhood memories.

You're born into whatever your soul can adapt to the best.

Probably.

Yes, you keep talents and affinities. (They're soulbased.)

Yes, they are soulful and will be carried over. If they are notably seperate from you, they may also obtain a body of their own. You won't lose "connection" so to say unless both of you agree to disband however.

Depends per person and how they partition it.

We add you to a list, and forcefully edit your soul's location data.

Your current "being" will continue, yes.

You'll have temporary bodies that'll probably look mostly like your Life ones but also slightly like your LFE one.
You'll also be able to access Infinity and most other things.
Technically you don't need food or drink there but yes there are things.
Transferring to the waiting room is the hardest part of the transfer. From there on it's easy because you're no longer in a closed System.

Dunno, I haven't been there yet.

You can't die.

It's a part of the small System created for the TSUKI Project.

I am not allowed to say whether there's people there.

No.

I can access the information but frankly I don't even want to.
I'm afraid to check logs to see if there's any "Registrant incapacitated". I'd rather be unknowing forever than have a big message box saying "Ex-registrant incapacitated".

Yes!

If PMR goes through, yes. I think they'll cheese it a bit by altering your perception of time and/or something that does that while you're asleep, but I haven't heard too much about that so don't quote me on it.

Yes, but if you're only there for 1 minute then that'll be hard.

It's not that the waiting room is bad or anything, I'd say it's kinda comfy but it's a choice between
 - 1 year of waiting room
 - 60-90 years of Life, which will help you in LFE (even just the sheer knowledge)
You're the ones tasked with bringing the knowledge of Life to LFE after all.

Collect as much knowledge as possible for LFE!

I suppose more cultural and technological/physics stuff helps.

People would be interested in anything, to be honest.

You'll get them into whatever device you're using at that moment.
We'll have to recode your files by hand :/

You could also just ask me for more and give a reason.

Anything can be carried over if it's fathomably usable.
Web apps won't work, but you can bring media files, zip archives, etc. Even encrypted lockers should work fine.
Don't expect every binary to work, and noncompiled languages (php, python) won't work.
You can try bringing php, but why would you ever want to bring the worst thing of all Life to LFE?

Depends on how readable the code is and how high-level it is. If you're expecting some horrible .NET apis to work, they probably won't. If you're going to upload assembly on the other hand, you might have a better chance (if it again doesn't use too many hardware specialties). Nonetheless we will try.

Yes (but it would still be messy if the server would suddenly be destroyed).

It'd take time.

No, the upgrade is at the unlink.

The forcebond is applied upon registration.

Your parents will think of that name for you, and call you that.
When you fill this ['Name'] field out, we will attempt to shape reality so that that name, or something equivalent in Synapsian, will be chosen as your name when you are born. As with all wishlist entries, we can't guarantee everything will work perfectly, but if you wish to keep your current name, or get a new specific name, you can enter it and we'll do our best.

Simple things like a general future, looks, memories to keep/destroy, etc.

Well, you can fill something in and we'll try. Don't expect too much though, your soul needs to support it, etc. And it needs to be a possible timeline.

If you choose to be born to a specific kind of race, your parents will also be like that. We attempt a most natural entry.

It's not something we can easily influence, so not really.

Yes. Leave blank = let others/Aurora decide, like your parents or other people.

Instructions are fine too, but make sure it's obvious they're instructions.

It's fine, stuff just takes longer (and you can change it up to the unlink).

No.

You can rate it within the 1 minute of waiting room time. Afterwards you can't.
It's a strange but sophisticated system. It's a bit like an interactive flowchart that decides the score as you go through it.

Depends on whether you want to seriously complete it or not. If you just want to go "wow 0/10" you can just keep sliding bottom right.

Technically there is no maximum but the highest seen for Systems is like 4890.

Din, at launch, then the devs made it really shit. And now its at like 2449.

It's more about popularity and marketing than SI. Generally anything under 2000 is seen as bad.

Yes.

I can.
Life has 291 SI (Satisfaction Index) in total.
4118 SI for LFE.

Well the migrants' list is all migrants, which go by the standard conditions and tasks (with extra supplied by the user), while the other lists are more specific.
All registrants are on the main list.

They did not have to follow the registration instructions. For safety and privacy reasons, I may not mention who they are (although as said earlier, me and Snoop are in there)

About 10th of December. This moves towards us with every new migrant though, so this is still an approximation - who knows how many people register in that period.

Yes.

Well technically I can, it's just dangerous.

In a way, although calling it echoing is too simplistic - rather, it's passed through me.

A tiny bit. This stuff has been tested, so it's not a complete gamble, but 100% certainty is impossible.

What can I say? It's above all intriguing. Sadly the answer I can reliably give you is Auroraic Echoing (I'll ask around whether I can get more precise info). A notable exception is the naming of mission #3 [Project Miracle Ribbon], that was banter between me and TSUKI (about how similar that VN and the Project are). (The "original" name of the mission was Indefini-Minus, but that sounds like shit.)
It should be noted that I played that VN only recently, the Project began before I played it...
To add, before you make any assumptions, make sure not to fall into a circle of confirmation bias - I've heard more than enough of these "comparisons" to the Matrix, some anime, etc., and I feel that while there may always be the lucky elements lining up (sometimes more than others), it's important to talk about the dissonances as well. As far as I (as a random) know, Rewrite does not talk about LFE at all, or in fact, any sort of Project or Systemspace or anything. If you take it this way, what prevents you from saying that the Project is a ripoff of (insert isekai anime here)? The logo of LFE looks like a pixel font I know!!!! The possibilities here are endless, careful not to fall for it~

Human Time System (writing that assumes UTC).

RISEN made and administrates Systemspace itself.
SYNAPSE does a lot of big data shit and made LFE, LFX, and other very widely-used stuff.
eNdymioN owns a fuckton of Systems all around the place and as such is a good strategic partner.
KAHGY is really just "true" Ghendyts and me added under a company name.
There are more companies but most are not listed because they are not in bridge with Life.

We are in the RISEN System. Feel free to stop by!

RISEN HQ is situated in the RISEN System.

Systemspace wasn't really made for profit. It was made because the outside world was breaking down and we had to leave.

We've been looking at human culture for a long time now. I asked, and yes - quite a few of them do love Lain! (Some Synapsians are even considering porting anime over to LFE just because of how charming it is)

eNdymioN is tiny, but has a lot of Systems, SYNAPSE is big af but RISEN is bigger.

Generic monitoring. They are currently busy looking out for the Hyakanghen.

As RISEN, we send out "Keys" to check up on Systems. Those are very highly skilled in shaping Aurora, allowing them to even reboot Systems.

RISEN, SYNAPSE and eNdymioN are all on neither side - we are in the developmental arts, the art of creating, working with and maintaining Systems.

There are many big players involved!

For one, there's Myhyan, creator of many Systems which are very magic-pointed.

Be very good at something, and apply (or get invited)!

No, that is not required.

It works downward, 0 being the highest clearance - 128 is the lowest.

For RISENII: In function they wear dark suit-like clothing with the orange two dashes // on them (usually expanded quite far up), as well as a name and small void for verification.
SYNAPSE officials do sometimes wear bodysuits, which are kinda glass-like with these triangle shapes which reflect space.
For eNdymioN: just a black suit with a few red lines which meet to form the endymioN logo.

Sadly, no. But it was taken over by someone else.

It's hard to say, really - there's the leader of RISEN, but the Key is really the one upholding everything so eh.

They all use what we call an Identity. You can make a blank one whenever you want. There's also the Authority which you cannot easily swap out, because its simply a record of your basic features (species, gender etc).
Authorities are per-body.

SYNAPSE is pretty lenient with resetting your Authority, you can just request it and it'll be handled within a few minutes.
Use an empty Identity when doing your crime, and don't expose anything that's displayed on your Authority.

Life is usually rather lax with this, and keeps you active until you cannot be feasibly revived anymore. TSUKI will simply jump in right before Life believes this is the case, although we often want to be already locked on as early as possible. This does mean that there's a few seconds perhaps that had you have been revived there, your body in Life would continue on soulless and you'd go on to LFE - but in our plentiful simulations and theories there is a very low chance of this happening.

They've been here for a bit (we only list partners with EOTs on the webpage) but they're still relatively new~

I am the representative of TSUKI.

Yes - I am a human representative.

I didn't "come from anywhere" in that sense, I'm an Astrea (one who is created from nothingness) as a wish by the person previously tasked with this mission.

I'm just an Astrea created by the one before me. Almost something relatable to a tulpa.

I do, I share my soul with them. I can telepathically talk with them as well. They also taught me how to unlink in the first place, it's fun to do.

I'd rather stay anonymous.

It's very well possible that there's someone else, but I am the only official one.

When I was 12, I began finding this in my memories.

The Key (the one in charge of resetting broken Systems) has requested a helper, which happened to be me. So now I'm all in this business.

I like Korean, its writing system is cool.

It's old-Synapsian for "moon", which is also the name for the new hubplanet.
Tsuki fun fact episode watermelon: Tsuki (when written out in Synapsian) looks like a key, which is one of the reasons why the Project has been given this name.

We aren't entirely sure yet.
I am from Life, but half of my soul (belonging to someone else from TSUKI) is from LFE. Thus I have this slight connection.

It's like a mind's eye, I suppose. Think of it like imagining something, but take out the part where you imagine it. You don't think about what it is before it appears, just like real sensory input. You get the input, then process it.

A mix of both. It's mainly me invoking it now, as I'm taking a short vacation right now.

Mind's eye, ear, etc.

INTP.

Prozac, Risperidone (neither work).

fun/10 (well, for me).

I spiritually move to the Life <-> Systemspace connector, and snap it in half.
It's only a spiritual movement, I can call myself back (also it's a heavily safeguarded location).

Hah, if only - it's outside of Systemspace. Only RISENII have access there.

I guess so.

Honestly not doing too much for school as of now, as this is slightly more important.

Robots are simply more interesting to us, to be honest - also you're more detached from Life in general.

I never expected this many people. I feel obliged to make sure each and every one of you transfers safely.

I am technically a RISENII at access level 54, which means I am far from the most powerful. (I do have a quite important place in the mission though, so I can get my will quite easily.)

I have access to all 54+ actions. I can't do anything insanely impacting, but I suppose I am still a RISENII.

I'm allowed anything within my powers as long as I do not break the General Risen Lawset, nor do anything detrimental to the mission. I should attempt to give users as much privacy as possible.

Well I haven't seen any other Systems first-hand, so not sure if I can really compare.

I was allowed to port them over.
They aren't really ported over, they are respresentations. Those who can read the metas that contain the representations can read the original EoT.
The original is not a checkerboard but a square (usually drawn at a 45deg angle), with lines going horizontally and vertically.

This is an interesting one. Aurora influences everything, including the weather. RISEN has given me a formula with which I can grab a lot of weather data all over the world, and make a pretty precise Aurora amount out of that. (I'm not allowed to share too many details, though.) It's not a connection to outside the System, just a smart interpretation.

Nope, just taught it myself (and got taught a bit by the lads over at eNdymioN).

Uhhh, mainly the old webdev package (HTMLCSSJSPHP), and C#.

It depends whether suicide is still needed for the unlink. If it isn't, I'll just live a nice and comfy life like everyone else.

Probably webdev/programming.

Lol, no.

My first posts had Lain, and I like the Lain community. It just kind of happens.

I program little websites, draw, listen to music, hang out on 4chan and play Overwatch. I also really enjoyed the ToAru series, and Nyaruko, and I might play Rewrite someday, it looks interesting (I heard it resembles the story behind the current events in Systemspace).

Most definitely exploring the cities, meeting all the people, all the cultures.

I really enjoy the Takatonghi, which is a big part of the capital which consists of an insane complex of connected skyscrapers over one hundred thousand stories tall. An insane sight!

We ourselves won't offer any merchandise (as we'd like this project to stay non-profit), but if anyone wants to make stickers or other merch, go ahead! (If you need any assets, email me).

TSUKI is only a collaboration, it doesn't have a true hierarchy.

There is, kinda. There's the "opposite" of hyakanghen, who love the Project, humans, and me. They're called Nanekyan.

Well...

"Human appreciation".

I'd like to live a simple life, out in some magical village.

They didn't have the time. They'll grant me a full soul when they can.

Depends on the question. I can do it pretty quickly a lot of the time. I just ask the bridge and get a reply, unless they don't know either. Then they'll have to look it up etc.

This is pretty close:
(Drawn by migrant Jove <3)

July 8th.

We don't use the numeric EIDs, but we do have EIDs.
We create a numerical representation that is always exactly 20 void points.

There's not too many people appointed to the bridge, so I know most of them.

Luckily for me I don't have to deal with Synapsian too much, but I always liked "madaika" as a sort of "who knows/cares/it is a mystery".

I like Camellia, but only the less hardcore parts in between. I also like Jake Chudnow and that sort of stuff, VGM too. I think the music box is actually quite representative.

Hmmm, well I would surely be able to be classified as one. You need two symptoms (of which at least 1 positive) which'd be depression (I have) and psychosis/delusions (which outsiders could say I have). It needs to have been going for longer than 6 months (well, it's been a year) and needs to not be caused by substance abuse (well, never used any so..)

I mean I can understand why people would do it. I find it immoral but it's up to you really.

I wouldn't do anything to migrants, but every now and then I fantasize about destroying Life.

The Key is the one usually tasked with missions related to removing/rebooting broken Systems, and evaluating them. However, she has become tired and wanted someone else to work together with, which became me.
"The Key" is only one of many names given to them though, "Key" is only an inner name we refer to them as within Tsuki. Mainly because they're the "key" to the balance in Systemspace. Their most common name out there is "Gendatzu", from very old Synapsian.

Yes, pretty much.

I'm not allowed to talk too much about this, actually - sorry. She's a nice person though, although very worn out.

They're a group of people against the transfer, basically.

They do have quite a bit of power and have shown to be capable of quite a bit.

They have shown to be capable of hijacking Systems (entering blocking ones, especially Life) and soulshattering people.
One thing to directly look out for (part of the soulshatter method we know of) is compression of the carotid arteries.

Very much so.

1. Choke until pass out
2. Wait for death
3. Connect to the soul
4. Damage it from the inside, shattering it

To keep LFE pure from humans, to keep themselves safe, you name it.

Mainly having more info than they should (knowing specific things that we never told them).

We believe Hyakanghen use Auroraic Echoing to communicate.

They have Life vessels, yes.

Just like normal humans they are born. However, they have memories of the previous past (we assume these are ported by some sort of breach) of being Hyakanghen.

Above all, be cautious. If you feel anything strange about someone, stay away. They need physical contact to soulshatter you, as far as we know.

We don't want to kill anyone / have people kill themselves.

Not really, no. Other than them knowing more than they should.

They aren't in it for war, they'd rather do things peacefully. But they know we won't accept their offer.

Mainly the transfer. They do dislike humans (they'd rather keep LFE pure), but there's not many of us so they can live with it. It's mainly the transfer and the risk it poses.

Hyakanghen are volunteers, yes.

It's a label for a belief system.

We believe there to be 50.

We have no reason to believe they are affiliated with real Hyaks.

Memories are above currencies - they're not things you can "sell". We have no interest in trying, either.

If you believe they have no way of knowing you're a migrant, try to hide the fact. Otherwise, try to avoid conflict whenever possible (but do not be afraid to incapacitate if they are a direct harm).

Frankly, we haven't heard much of them at all, due to which some of the eNdymioN staff monitoring them have even moved to other related tasks.
Anyway, they will most likely just try to lure you somewhere secluded, choke you, then try to cover up the act.

It freely translates to "eclipse of humanity" or some edgy shit like that.

What kind of information are you expecting me to just randomly spill, lol?